Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Ice Ice Baby


Sure this all sounds terribly impressive.

Music hidden in 'Da Vinci Code' chapel

ROSLIN, Scotland, May. 1 (UPI) -- A music teacher and former military code breaker says he has cracked a real secret hidden in the Scottish chapel that appeared in "The Da Vinci Code."

Thomas Mitchell told The Telegraph that he and his son, Stuart, also a musician, began studying symbols carved on the walls of Rosslyn Chapel 20 years ago. They were especially interested in 213 carved cubes bearing flowers, diamonds, hexagons and other symbols in the building's Lady Chapel.

"I was obsessed by these symbols," Mitchell said. "I was convinced they meant something."

The Mitchells decided that the symbols are called cymatics or Chladni patterns, which form when powder-covered sheets of metal or glass are vibrated by a musical note. They have now created "The Rosslyn Motet," a piece of music based on the cube patterns.

The 600-year-old chapel near Edinburgh became internationally famous when author Dan Brown used it as a hiding place for the Holy Grail in his novel, "The Da Vinci Code."

Mitchell, who served as a code breaker with the RAF during the Korean War, said that he and his son had a "eureka moment" after years of puzzlement.
We believe this is the Holy Grail of music and, unlike "The Da Vinci Code," it is absolutely factual," he said.



until you decrypt the whole thing and find out that it sounds

like this.

9 comments:

Miss Cellania said...

That was definitely worth the price of admission!

Bruce said...

Jeezus, Drifty, give a little warning next time! Something like "SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE UNCONTROLLABLE SHRIEKING, BLEEDING FROM EARS, IRREVERSIBLE BRAIN DAMAGE."

Ivory Bill Woodpecker said...

I love this. I may have to see if I can find a Black Lace collection. I had never heard of this duo before now.

Alas, I looked them up on Wiki and one of them died in 1995.

Anonymous said...

DG- you move from the sublime to the inane in consecutive posts, love your dynamic range!

driftglass said...

us blues,
Insane is my baseline; any variants are a fluke :-)

IBW,
Happy to oblige.

Miss Cellania,
So since its free it is...?

Bruce,
Sorry, but we all must suffer for their art.

tech98 said...

UUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Bad flashback to the 1980s.
Throw in Wham!'s 'Club Tropicana' and you've got a Weapon of Mass Destruction...

The Minstrel Boy said...

that was tres cruel drifty. funny, yet cruel. and i must note that this is being pointed out to you by someone who has backed barry manilow (it's own discrete version of musical hell).

Anonymous said...

Awwww Fuck Driftie!!! Now I can't go to sleep that vid has created an earworm in my noggin. Not fair!!!!

Unknown said...

Holy crap, it's the Wet Gits!